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Commercial and opensource firewall documentations here
Containers
Containers are executable units of software in which application code is packaged along with its libraries and dependencies, in common ways so that the code can be run anywhere—whether it be on desktop, traditional IT or the cloud.
Operating System
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Application
Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks.
Networking
A computer network is a group of computers that use a set of common communication protocols over digital interconnections for the purpose of sharing resources located on or provided by the network nodes.
Automation
Automation is the use of technology to perform tasks with where human input is minimized. This includes enterprise applications such as business process automation (BPA), IT automation, network automation, automating integration between systems, industrial aut...
Databases
A database is an organized collection of data, generally stored and accessed electronically from a computer system. Where databases are more complex they are often developed using formal design and modeling techniques.
Proxies & Reverse Proxies
Proxy servers route and secure traffic between networks.
Orchestration
Orchestration is the automated configuration, management, and coordination of computer systems, applications, and services. Orchestration helps IT to more easily manage complex tasks and workflows.
Check Point Firewalls
Products & Firewall from https://checkpoint.com
Networking
Fortigate Firewalls
All about Fortinet, Firewall and other stuff of the daily work with the products.
Linux
F5 BIG-IP
F5's BIG-IP is a family of products covering software and hardware designed around application availability, access control, and security solutions.
Databases
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL...
Application Knowledge
During my work with different applications I found some tricks and hints how to work with them. This is the collection I put together with the knowledge about it.
pfSense
pfSense Firewall
Altipeak
Keycloak
McAfee
McAfee products like Web Gateway
Microsoft
Univention
Univention Corporate Server (UCS) https://www.univention.com
Ubiquiti Network
Ubiquiti Network Equipment
Kubernetes
Terraform
Forward Proxies
General forward proxies
DNS
All about Domain Name System (DNS)
F5OS
F5OS that runs on F5 appliance and F5 chassis platforms enabled with a microservices platform layer.
Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway
The actual Skyhigh SWG or formerly McAfee Web Gateway (MWG).
Design
Operation
Troubleshooting
Links & Tools
IPv6
IPv4
Routing
Links & Tools
Design
Operation
Troubleshooting
Links & Tools
Storage
Hardware
Design
Operation
Troubleshooting
Links & Tools
PostgreSQL - Operation
Collaboration
Collaboration Apps
Useful CLI Commands Check Point
Cheatsheets Check Point CLI Reference Card (https://www.roesen.org/files/cp_cli_ref_card.pdf) FW Monitor (https://www.roesen.org/files/fw_monitor.pdf) R80 Cheat Sheet FW-Monitor (https://www.ankenbrand24.de/index.php/articles/check-point-articel/cheat-she...
Useful Smartlog Queries
Generic Queries Research SmartLog Query Search for E-Mail SubjectNote: Search without quotation marks and wildcard works for email_subject email_subject:*TEXT* Application Control Proxy Log blade:"Application Control" AND appi_name:"Web Sur...
Useful SNMP OIDs (VSX)
Check Point and SNMP Monitoring for a Firewall is important, you need to make sure that you see the baseline of your environment and that you can see when some value will go up too high. The following guide is showing some of the most used SNMP OID for monit...
Threat Prevention API
Threat Prevention APIs Take control of the Threat Prevention APIs powered by the largest Threat Cloud in the industry URL Reputation – for a domain/URL returns the classification and risk in accessing the resourceFile Reputation – for a file digest (md5/sha1...
Threat Prevention Cyber Attacks Dashboard Template
If you have Anti-Bot, Anti-Virus, IPS, Threat Emulation Blades active and a SmartLog License, you're maybe interested to see the following Dashboard: Description and Download of the Template here: https://community.checkpoint.com/community/management...
DOS & DDOS Prevention, Mitigation
Preface Since R80.20 DOS/DDOS Prevention changed in Check Point.The following is a summary how you can setup and mitigate DOS & DDOS attacks. SYN Defender since R80.20 Important changes in IPS "SYN Attack" (SYN Defender) protection for R80.20 and above ...
Network Ports used for communication
Introduction This drawing should give you an overview of the used R80 and R77 ports respectively communication flows. It should give you an overview of how different Check Point modules communicate with each other. Furthermore, services that are used for fire...
Export Syslog Messages
Export Syslog Messages How to export syslog messages from Gaia Security Gateway to a Log Server and view them in SmartView Tracker https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?action=portlets.SearchResultMainAction&eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutionde...
Missing feature - Global search across multiple CMA
Preface Before R80.x in a MDM (Multi Domain Management) you could do a search where an object is used in all the CMA's.Until now (R80.30) this feature is not included in SmartConsole anymore. Script solution https://github.com/WadesWeaponShed/Global-IP-Sea...
Show logging using the web interface
If you need to view Logs over the Web in Check Point you can use SmartView. Available since R80 but not enabled per default. In R80.10 it is enabled per default and you can access it with your SmartConsole Credentials. It looks like this in the Browser: A...
Managing partition sizes via LVM manager on Gaia OS
Partition Resize Since R77.30 lvm_manager is included in Gaia OS and can be used to resize logical volumes on the system. Check Managing partition sizes via LVM manager on Gaia OS (sk95566) for more information. Partition Sizes when installing Gaia OS When...
SmartConsole cli parameters
In R77.30 you could use command line parameters to specify username/password like this: FwPolicy.exe connect %Hostname% %Username% Since R80.10 you need to do the following: SmartConsole.exe -p SmartConsole.LoginParams Here is the SmartConsole.LoginParams ...
Jump to Rule Number or UID
In R80.10 you can jump directly to a rule number or a rule-UID. With Ctrl-G you get the following: You can copy the UID from a rule: Or search for an rule-UID: Perfect to use in documentations, just use the rule-UID or sometimes I also use the <FW...
SmartConsole: Clear disconnected sessions
Howto clear disconnected sessions If several SmartConsole disconnected (stale) sessions that cannot be discarded, see this here: https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Management-Topics/clear-disconnected-sessions/td-p/33027 Postgresql Queries View p...
After policy install: UDP packet that belongs to an old session drops
Problem description At the customer site we have a rule which allows a WLAN Controller to connect to the RADIUS Server in another network.After installing the rules, the UDP connections were rematched because it is the needed global Setting on this Firewall. ...
How to copy a file from a Check Point firewall
For troubleshooting you need sometime to transfer files from a Check Point firewal, as example tcpdump files etc.With the admin user it is not possible to login with sftp, the shell for the user is set to /etc/cli.sh. For a temporary access to the sftp featur...
CPView Utility and High Load Traffic
If you have the situation and a fw has a high load on traffic sometimes you need tools to figure it out what causes the resulting high cpu load etc. A great tool to use is Check Point's CPView: https://community.checkpoint.com/videos/5977-the-cpview-utility ...
IPS Troubleshooting
IPS Profile and Detect Mode When you run the IPS recommended profile, most of the critical and high signatures are in inactive or detect mode.But still there could be a high cpu performance impact even when you're only in detect mode. In prevent mode you kil...
Limitation of 251 Inline Layers
Problem Policy push fails with the following error: Policy installation failed on gateway. If the problem persists contact Check Point support (Error code: 2000232) Cause The user has configured too many policy layers in the rulebase (a layer is either an O...
BGP figure out networks belonging to AS
BGP List prefixes To list all prefixes originated on AS1759 against the Routing Assets Database (RADb), issue the command below. whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS1759' | grep -Eo "(route:|route6:).*" route: 139.157.0.0/16 route: 147.44.0.0...